{"id":15868,"date":"2016-07-20T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:59:59","slug":"the-mountain-men-1980-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15868","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mountain Men&#8221; (1980) starring Charlton Heston and Brian Keith \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z072016themountainmen_poster_zview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;The Mountain Men&#8221;<\/em> (1980)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<strong>\u00a0\u00a0Richard Lang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Fraser Clarke Heston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong>\u00a0 Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo\u00a0and John Glover<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline:<em>\u00a0 Alone&#8230; each is a bombshell. \u00a0Together&#8230; they&#8217;re dynamite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two aging mountain men survive in a world that is changing and will soon leave them behind.\u00a0 If the hostile conditions of the frontier don&#8217;t kill &#8217;em, the Indians or the corn whiskey might.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I remember seeing this movie back in the early 80&#8217;s on HBO and loving it. \u00a0I recently revisited it and while I still enjoyed it, <em><strong>The Mountain Men<\/strong><\/em> wasn&#8217;t the movie I remember loving so much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The interplay between Charlton Heston and Brian Keith [who steals every scene is in] is worth the price of admission. Heston and Keith had worked together on the 1953 film <em>Arrowhead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s fun seeing a young John Glover in his first screen appearance.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Mountain Men<\/em> was director Richard Lang&#8217;s first time helming a feature film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Mountain Men<\/em>&#8216;s screenwriter, Fraser Heston, is Charlton Heston&#8217;s son.<em>\u00a0The Mountain Men<\/em> screenplay was Fraser Heston&#8217;s feature film debut.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians are too Hollywood looking now and some of the scenes don&#8217;t hold up as well. \u00a0Still I liked it a lot, just not as much as I remembered loving it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z072016themountainmen_pic_zview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Mountain Men&#8221; (1980) Director:\u00a0\u00a0Richard Lang Screenplay: Fraser Clarke Heston Stars:\u00a0 Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo\u00a0and John Glover. 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